On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 19:40 -0500, James Knott wrote:

I'm running SuSE (9.1 & 10.0) on 3 computers and have noticed that one of the login options is to login to a remote system, using XDMCP. What I can't find, is how to enable it on the remote system. What do I have to change on a SuSE system, to allow remote login. Please don't worry about security. This is being done on a private lan, behind a firewall.

tnx jk

Look into using freeNX, NX and KNX instead. Much easier setup following the docs and it plain works. The client can be either linux or MS windows. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

jim barnes wrote:

On Monday 02 January 2006 05:40 pm, James Knott wrote:

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I'm running SuSE (9.1 & 10.0) on 3 computers and have noticed that one of the login options is to login to a remote system, using XDMCP. What I can't find, is how to enable it on the remote system. What do I have to change on a SuSE system, to allow remote login. Please don't worry about security. This is being done on a private lan, behind a firewall.

Look for section [Xdmcp] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, and edit it accordingly.

The problem is not finding the file, it's trying to figure out how to edit it accordingly. There's nothing about it in the SUSE help, other than to say it's possible. tnx

On Monday 02 January 2006 07:19 pm, James Knott wrote:

jim barnes wrote:

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Look for section [Xdmcp] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, and edit it accordingly.

The problem is not finding the file, it's trying to figure out how to edit it accordingly. There's nothing about it in the SUSE help, other than to say it's possible.

Yes, It is more involved than editing one file. Have a look at http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/XDMCP-HOWTO/ Maybe X -query <host> :1.0 would suit? -- Jim Barnes -- Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. -Lazarus Long -- Linux 2.6.12-10-686

Ken Schneider wrote:

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 19:40 -0500, James Knott wrote:

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I'm running SuSE (9.1 & 10.0) on 3 computers and have noticed that one of the login options is to login to a remote system, using XDMCP. What I can't find, is how to enable it on the remote system. What do I have to change on a SuSE system, to allow remote login. Please don't worry about security. This is being done on a private lan, behind a firewall.

tnx jk

Look into using freeNX, NX and KNX instead. Much easier setup following the docs and it plain works. The client can be either linux or MS windows.

I am aware of FreeNX, but I was asking specifically about XDMCP. tnx

I am aware of FreeNX, but I was asking specifically about XDMCP.

Did you receive the email I sent yesterday? Regards, Gael

Gaël Lams wrote:

On 1/3/06, James Knott wrote:

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jim barnes wrote: The problem is not finding the file, it's trying to figure out how to edit it accordingly. There's nothing about it in the SUSE help, other than to say it's possible.

tnx

I set-up it one with vnc and fvwm and it's working fine, even I want to try FreeNX one of these days. The scope wa to allow users to log in to their X-Window desktop, in my case fvwm2, but could be KDE, Gnome, or other) via a display manager (in my case XDM, but could be GDM, KDM, or other).

As you said, the first step is to go to Yast – Network Service and enable "Allow remote administration". This will install xinetd, tightvnc, org-x11, org-x11-Xvnc, and fvwm2, xinetd being used to start tightvnc automaticaly at boot and fvwm2 being used as the desktop manager (it's lighter than Gnome or Kde, therefore better for using through a VPN connection, which was my case. From what I heard, FreeNX should be better).

You then need to modify xdm configuration in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config to listen to XDMCP requests as we want to manage X terminals with xdm

!DisplayManager.requestPort: 0

You then need to assure also that hosts login are accepted with the following line in Xaccess:

* #any host can get a login window

In my set-up, I wanted to have fvwm2 automatically used when connecting via vnc, so I created a file with the name .xsession and containing the following line:

exec fvwm2

At this point, you should be able to connect to the server with the vncviewer by going to your_ip_address::5901 or from the web by going to your_ip_address::5801 I hope it helps.

As far as I can tell, my configuration is as above. However, I'm not trying to use VNC. I'm trying to use the SUSE remote login. Even after the above, and restarting rcxdm, when I try to use that remote login, I just get a black screen, with the X cursor. Then after a few minutes, I wind up back at the login screen, without being able to connect to the remote system. tnx jk